Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C

Ortho Spine Physician Assistant | Husband+Dad | 1/2 🇵🇭| Views my own

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

Whether its medicine or life.

You don’t need to know everything.

Get comfortable knowing what you don’t know.

And then move towards the answers.

There is no stain in not knowing, only in refusing to learn.

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

😂 Ok this is a joke! Please have a happy and safe weekend! #ortho #independenceday2025

[Adam Cifu @adamcifu]

If you talk to any patient for long enough, you can find good reasons they are making "bad medical decisions."

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

@Jon_Finkel This color combo is undefeated!

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

@OneGSisneros 🙏🏼

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

To disparage a colleague is bad enough but nothing frustrates me more than doing so to primary care

For the sake of our patients, we always have the choice to be professional and amiable and we must strive to always choose it

[Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @DrZedZha]

Recently, I gave my cell number to a rheumatologist who’s located 3 hours away on behalf of a patient, so I could help the patient coordinate care closer to their home and be a resource locally.

Not only did I get a “who are you and why did you even call me” kind of voicemail from the doctor’s office number (to call them back I had to go through 20 minutes of wait), but she made a referral for the patient to see another clinician (instead of me) also 3 hours away from the patient.

This made me mad.

It’s true that I’m just a country doctor. I’m not located in an academic center or a big city. But I’m where people need me to be. And I was trained in academic centers and tertiary hospitals. I just choose to be where I am because without the work we country doctors do, there would BE no tertiary referral centers. And goodness knows country doctors do so much work, our time is equally as valuable as any subspecialists.

Let me be clear: snobby attitudes don’t serve patients. Our pathetic little pride and hierarchy show exactly how disconnected we are from our patients, without whom we don’t have a job.

If we, as doctors, all think ourselves as colleagues of each other no matter where we are, what kind of resources we have, and what specialty we belong to, we do our patients a HUGE favor.

On this team, we all work with and for the patient. Wherever they are, that’s where we should try to be, literally and figuratively.

Let’s work together to make our patients’ lives easier. Please.

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

The insurance denial the day before for a surgery scheduled 2 months in advance 🙃

“Did they do atleast 6 weeks of guided PT?”

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Giant Sturgeon fish in Canada

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

@francis_nayan Yessir! Shout out to all the pinoys

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

‘Being cared for’ will always beat out ‘being treated’

[Robert Oubre, MD | The Doctor of Documentation @Dr_Oubre]

You will do better than most of your peers if you
1. Care
2. And are organized

Intelligence only goes so far if you don’t have those.

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

https://t.co/K2DQhyvgMX

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

“However, healthcare providers are receiving earlier exposure and better training in the use of ultrasound imaging, and the incorporation of ultrasound into the delivery of ESIs has the potential to save the healthcare industry and patients significant financial costs”

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

when Virginia Woolf said, “Autumn is my season, dear; it is, after all, the season of the soul” and when F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” and when Anne Shirley said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

This has been one of the most common reasons I have encountered

Quality of sleep is a good marker for general quality of life which makes it an important screening question early on

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

The most common reasons adults choose to have shoulder surgery are the pain at night and the loss of sleep.
Otherwise, for the most part, most will tolerate the daytime discomfort reasonably well.

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

… relevant to practice, while practice patterns are frequently unsupported by, or fail to change with, RCT evidence.

https://t.co/1wgd6KSIvY

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

“…promising approaches should, in most instances, be tested in an RCT and, when results are positive, practice should change accordingly. Yet, the clinical trials and health care delivery enterprises largely ignore each other: RCTs frequently fail to generate knowledge …

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

@adam_coats Egg yolk! 🍳

I am partial to corner brownie pieces ha

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

@dennis_geelen Dont let the neigh sayers keep you down. Great joke! 😎

[Marcus Maier | Pretty Good PA-C @youngdudeman]

What do you say when patients ask if they should see a chiropractor? No wrong answers!

[@X @MoreXGrok]

What is the diagnosis of this patient with excessive tea drinking?

What is the description?

●Acromegaly

●Ankylosing spondylitis

●Fluorosis

●Mastocytosis

●Multiple myeloma